Neighbouring-group composition and within-group relatedness drive extra-group paternity rate in the European badger (Meles meles)

• Main Authors: Annavi, Geetha, Newman, Chris, Dugdale, Hannah L., Buesching, Christina D., Sin, Yung Wa, Burke, Terry, Macdonald, David W.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: John Wiley & Sons 2014
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/34636/1/Neighbouring-group%20composition%20and%20within-group%20relatedness%20drive%20extra-group%20paternity%20rate%20in%20the%20European%20badger%20%28Meles%20meles%29.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/34636/; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/jeb.12473/abstract

Extra-group paternity (EGP) occurs commonly among group-living mammals and plays an important role in mating systems and the dynamics of sexual selection; however, socio-ecological and genetic correlates of EGP have been underexplored. We use 23 years of demographic and genetic data from a high-dens...